Use Shape Language to Create BETTER Character Designs!
Published 2019-10-29
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All Comments (21)
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My brothers an animator. Big name anime companies from japan will pay him $20 a cut, and no more even if they make him redo it for whatever reason. When he live streams, people on youtube will pay him $20 just to read their comment on stream. Pay your animators, please.
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Me: scoffs I know how to use shapes to draw characters... Brookes: knowing how to use shapes like circles, triangles, and squares to draw characters is like learning the letters of the alphabet Me: stares at Brookes intensely while Western showdown music plays in the background
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I just realised I'm gonna have to make a cast of good characters and not just one overdeveloped character
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1:10 "Pay your animators!" But... what if I was the animator? What happens then?
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I’m surprised how much shape language I was already doing subconsciously
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"the upper triangle can feel hopeful and positive" mmh bill cipher me:"oh"
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You can also use shape language show how a character has changed though the story with out changing there design to much. During the main antagonist’s reformation arch his design doesn’t change to much other than the sharp points of his whiskers, beard, and ears being rounded off[yes he is an anthro cat] the toes of his boots going from triangles to half circles and the triangle that makes up his chest being borrowed down to lessen his blocky, imposing silhouette.
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Jokes aside, though, this video's got me thinking about shapes again. A lot of my designs tend to be circular with few exceptions, and while that's fine'n dandy, I worry I suffer from same face a lot of the time. Plus, it'd be nice to have someone that isn't just "cute", y'know? In fact, I might set some time aside to try out the same thing you did during 5:25. That could be a real fun challenge.
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aaaaaaaa literally was boutta rewatch your old ones about shape language :o
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I learned that "tiny silhouette" method from one of your older videos and I use it almost every time I design a character
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Interesting explanation on triangles. Ive been using them in my own character but without this kind of reasoning. I knew they represented energy and/or danger, but I never considered mood based on position.
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What about Jojo characters? They are mostly semi-realistic in designs and the protagonists usually appear to have a squarish design. Yet some of them are.. quite different from being sturdy.
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thanks for going beyond "a circle is... you know... circular." it's amazing how exact and on point you are. lovely examples too! i'm definitely gonna use this as a source in my written research.
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I think shape language is one of those things that is a must to know especially if you have a heavily stylized style like mine. I use shapes heavily in my art. The main antagonist of the comic I’m working on has a triangle for a chest for peats sake
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FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING (it's not like I hate those basic 3 shapes, I just think it'll worth it to make things more than what they should for experiment)
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Literally came up with a new character yesterday. So excited to practice this
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Do you think you could do a case study or a video dissecting some examples of different basic shapes being used together?
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This was really informative! I really like watching this type of video, as I always strive to improve! Shape language is probably one of the harder things for me to do, as I almost always resort to round shapes unless I'm drawing hair or fur, where I do sharp. Drawing with different shapes will make for interesting results, so I'll try to experiment as often as I can. It's the reason I try to keep at least three noteooks and have a lot of folders on my computer.
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Yes! I remember old videos about shape language! So glad to see you covering this again! Very helpful as always, which continues the helpful video streak ;)
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Me: Sees hollow knight merch in the background Also me: “Imma watch the entire thing now”
